Easily share your code with the PHP community by contributing your library as a composer package: This article will show you how to publish your code on GitLab and as a package on packagist.org. Writing Your PHP Code Publishing open source code has never been easier. Using PHP’s package manager composer, thousands of freely available packages are only one composer require away. Believe it or not, but there exists an npm package named “is-odd” with over 700,000 weekly downloads. Its ...
While there are many great tutorials to integrate Java and Python applications into Kafka, PHP is often left out. However, by offering scalability, high performance and high availability, Kafka is a very promising data infrastructure for combining legacy applications (such as PHP monoliths) with modern microservices. This article shows you how to setup a Kafka-PHP development environment from scratch using Docker and how to send your first message from a PHP application to a Kafka topic. Architecture Overview For this ...
With the new minor version upgrade PHP 7.3, trailing commas are introduced for function calls. A few thoughts why this is a good thing but does not go far enough. ...
Elasticsearch is a state-of-the-art full-text search engine you might want to use in your next project. It is based on a NoSQL-like document store and optimized for amazingly fast search queries. A powerful API enables features like fuzzy matching (find ‘Toronto’ when searching for ‘Torronto’), stemming (find ‘race’ when searching for ‘racing’) and n-grams (find ‘spaghetti’ with ‘ghett’). In this article, I will show you how to set up an Elasticsearch instance using Docker and PHP and how to easily ...